{"id":15341,"date":"2013-12-20T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T05:48:13","slug":"police-to-strengthen-security-at-atms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/police-to-strengthen-security-at-atms\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to strengthen security at ATMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> In the wake of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report-woman-brutally-attacked-in-an-atm-in-banglore-caught-on-security-camera-1921709\" target=\"_blank\">brutal attack on a customer in an ATM in Bangalore<\/a>, Trivandrum City police issued directives to the banks here on the security issues at the ATM counters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/listing.entecity.com\/businesstags\/atms-in-trivandrum\" target=\"_blank\">Find ATM&#8217;s in Trivandrum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both the City and Rural police have started collecting the details of the ATM booths without security. According to the data collected by the police, there are more than 100 ATMs across the district without a security guard. And ATMs which do have security personnel have poorly equipped security guards.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials are taking steps to ensure the safety of persons who withdrew money from ATMs. The police have instructed the bank to employ security guards at all ATMs. Bank officials were also asked to relocate the ATMs from isolated spots to crowded places. The other directives include installation of high-quality cameras and ensuring better lighting inside the counters. For ATM&#8217;s that lack security guard and cameras, special patrolling will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the security guards posted outside the ATM counters say that they do not have necessary equipments for self-defence and for tacking certain situations. Banks spend around Rs 10,000 a month for deploying a security guard at the ATM, but these security guards only have mobile phones with them to communicate with the authorities to seek help during an emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: In the wake of a brutal attack on a customer in an ATM in Bangalore, Trivandrum City police issued directives to the banks here on the security issues at the ATM counters. Find ATM&#8217;s in Trivandrum Both the City and Rural police have started collecting the details of the ATM booths without security. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}